Quotes of Wrought - somelinesforyou

“ Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. ”

- Anne Bradstreet

“ What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once. ”

- Clive Barker

“ We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. ”

- Charles Stanley

“ This is a man who was shaped and molded on the prairie and has distinguished himself... in some of the most difficult jobs that we've had in our government. ”

- Chuck Hagel

“ But that he wrought so high the specious tale, as manifested plainly 'twas a lie. ”

- Ludovico Ariosto

“ When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last! ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis — once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ”

- Norman Cousins

“ From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. ”

- Herman Melville

“ First he wrought, and afterward he taught. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle, it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears. ”

- Frances Rodman

“ But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart! ”

- Thomas Hood

“ And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. ”

- Lord Byron

“ When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. ”

- Helen Keller

“ What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. ”

- Homer

“ Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song. ”

- Luther

“ Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ”

- Herodotus

“ I think I'll probably write something, a family drama. I'm good at frame works and plots, but my dialogue is atrocious. It gets very over-wrought. My husband's a writer and his dialogue is brilliant, so, I'm very often his script-editor, so I think we'll probably write something together. ”

- Thandie Newton

“ 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two. ”

- Ezra

“ There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon. ”

- George Eliot

“ The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character. ”

- Sir William Osler
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